ASC Coding, Billing & Collections

In an EHR Intelligence report, Jennifer Bresnick lays out 10 questions providers should ask their vendors before the implementation of ICD-10.

Durham, N.C.-based PatientPay has integrated its online healthcare billing solution system with e-MD's practice management software through Tangible Solutions.

On Oct. 16, 2013, Senior Manager, Coding & Coverage Access at Specialty Healthcare Advisers a subsidiary of Musculoskeletal Clinical Regulatory Advisers, Carolyn Neumann, CPC, presented a webinar titled "How to Overcome the 5 Biggest Reimbursement Challenges in Total Joint &…

Newport News, Va.-based Riverside Medical Group has chosen athenahealth's athenaCollector tool for its billing and practice management needs.

Medical coding jobs are in high demand, as illustrated recently by 700 people vying for 10 open positions at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., according to a Vermont Public Radio report.

About 60 percent of U.S. companies are self-funded rather than traditional insurance under the ERISA laws, and more are moving towards self-funding because of the Affordable Care Act, said President of Surgical Notes Jeff Blankinship.

Newton (Kan.) Medical Center has adopted ICA's CareAlign interoperability platform to allow for the exchange of continuity of care documents by cross-enterprise document sharing.

Some of the country's largest healthcare providers have crafted highly organized plans for implementing ICD-10 that smaller providers and ambulatory surgery centers can learn from, according to Healthcare Finance News.

Dignity Health and Optum have formed a joint venture to provide better revenue cycle management services to healthcare organizations.

Unemployment numbers for healthcare coders are drastically down from where they were last year, according to the 2013 AAPC Healthcare Salary Survey.